I was born in August, no July, 1908.
SATCHEL PAIGE
SATCHEL PAIGE
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How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?
Satchel PaigeSatchel Paige If a man can beat you, walk him.
Satchel PaigeSatchel Paige Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching.
Satchel PaigeSatchel Paige Avoid running at all times.
Satchel PaigeSatchel Paige The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.
Satchel PaigeSatchel Paige Ain’t no man can avoid being born average, but there ain’t no man got to be common.
Satchel PaigeSatchel Paige I ain’t ever had a job, I just always played baseball.
Satchel PaigeSatchel Paige I don’t generally like running. I believe in training by rising gently up and down from the bench.
Satchel PaigeSatchel Paige Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it don’t matter.
Satchel PaigeSatchel Paige Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don’t move.
Satchel PaigeSatchel Paige Don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.
Satchel PaigeSatchel Paige I’ve said it once and I’ll say it a a hundred times, I’m forty-four years old.
Satchel PaigeSatchel Paige When a batter swings and I see his knees move, I can tell just what his weaknesses are then I just put the ball where I know he can’t hit it.
Satchel PaigeSatchel Paige I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain’t never been seen by this generation.
Satchel PaigeSatchel Paige Don’t look back. Something might be gaining on you.
Satchel PaigeSatchel Paige I never rush myself. See, they can’t start the game without me.
Satchel PaigeSatchel Paige
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In August, 1900, [Friedrich] Nietzsche was laid to rest Nietzsche, as the apostle of atheism, heralded the darkest century the world has ever known.
Benjamin WikerBenjamin Wiker Could you let me have the 3 weeks due to me now and if I work again before August I must of course repay you at the rate of exchange you let me have it at now if you kindly will.
Basil RathboneBasil Rathbone Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk.
Pat ConroyPat Conroy August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haze and calm of these long, warm days. He is a bird of leisure and seems always at his ease. How beautiful and majestic are his movements!
John BurroughsJohn Burroughs I’ve never made a video where I didn’t talk to the artist before I wrote the treatment.
Adria PettyAdria Petty A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas.
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